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Authors: | Aiuppa, Alessandro* Fiorani, Luca* Santoro, Simone* Parracino, Stefano* D'Aleo, Roberto* Liuzzo, Marco* Maio, Giovanni* Nuvoli, Marcello* |
Title: | New Advances in Dial-Lidar-Based Remote Sensing of the Volcanic CO2 Flux | Journal: | Frontiers in Earth Science | Series/Report no.: | /5 (2017) | Issue Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.3389/feart.2017.00015 | Subject Classification: | 04.08. Volcanology | Abstract: | We report here on the results of a proof-of-concept study aimed at remotely sensing the volcanic CO2 flux using a Differential Adsorption lidar (DIAL-lidar). The observations we report on were conducted in June 2014 on Stromboli volcano, where our lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) was used to scan the volcanic plume at ∼3 km distance from the summit vents. The obtained results prove that a remotely operating lidar can resolve a volcanic CO2 signal of a few tens of ppm (in excess to background air) over km-long optical paths. We combine these results with independent estimates of plume transport speed (from processing of UV Camera images) to derive volcanic CO2 flux time-series of ≈16–33 min temporal resolution. Our lidar-based CO2 fluxes range from 1.8 ± 0.5 to 32.1 ± 8.0 kg/s, and constrain the daily averaged CO2 emissions from Stromboli at 8.3 ± 2.1 to 18.1 ± 4.5 kg/s (or 718–1565 tons/day). These inferred fluxes fall within the range of earlier observations at Stromboli. They also agree well with contemporaneous CO2 flux determinations (8.4–20.1 kg/s) obtained using a standard approach that combines Multi-GAS-based in-plume readings of the CO2/SO2 ratio (≈8) with UV-camera sensed SO2 fluxes (1.5–3.4 kg/s). We conclude that DIAL-lidars offer new prospects for safer (remote) instrumental observations of the volcanic CO2 flux. |
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